Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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To change and change for the better are two different things